I expected to vote with more than 774 other folks in District 3 today.

Come on District 3! We are the 2nd largest district - where are the other 201,952 of you?

They are a legally required safety feature that must be considered for every major project - I’m amazed there have not been lawsuits pushing that when DOT continues to add 74mi of unprotected bike lanes during the streets master plan.

Vehicles registered to the NYC metro area drive 3,700,000,000 miles... EVERY MONTH.

⛽️⚡️ 7.4% hybrid vehicles (276,000,000 miles)
🔋⚡️ 2.7% electric vehicles (100,000,000 miles)

sometimes you come across a tweet so perfect.

This was in response to Gowanus being gentrified and a coffin factory being replaced with homes.

Of course I was, but @americanfietser.bsky.social's post is still spot on.

Gee, where could we fit a bike lane??

Council District 3 Special Election TL;DR: Rank Carl Wilson first

Also, Council District 3 friends - read Abundance NY's endorsement too for details on housing policy.

No vaults under this section

FYI for any Council District 3 friends. I highly value @streetspac.org endorsements.

Early voting starts tomorrow and you should rank these two.

I agree they should "scan" every car (though 'scanning' only applies to NY registration with barcodes) - but how do you ensure that they actually did every car? That the role of audit (both announced and unannounced).

ok i'll add one more on your role

g) don't ever ask "how many summonses" it's the wrong question. Ask "what is the compliance rate" - i.e. what % of blocks have illegally parked vehicles.

We don't want "how many red light tickets?" q's we want "what % of cars stop before the crosswalk?"

Note: only 3 of 12 sidewalk parking tickets (for the data available) in the past 12 months on this block were at the car wash.

NYC Parking Enforcement Violations on 600-699 W 46th St

I've also built analysis tools to verify enforcement on specific blocks - is it reasonable NYPD Traffic only does enforcement 26% of days? - and never more than 6 tickets?There are 10-20 violations on this block every day.

hows-my-enforcement.nyc/n6kmumvTt

NYC 311 Report Card

I've also published data I'm happy to walk through in person.

Data to understand how often NYPD issues summons for illegal parking (25%), Civilian satisfaction with responses to illegal parking (81% dissatisfied)

reports.jehiah.cz/summons_issu...
reports.jehiah.cz/311_report_c...

f) no placards for personal vehicles - There should be no city issued placards for personal vehicles. I would support a meter discount for some city employees but all "reserved parking" zones should be to a class of vehicle (like "NYC plates only") not placards.

e) DOT and NYPD currently have legal authority to issue tickets even if they don't physically observe the violation - I strongly support legislation that forces them to mail summonses based on substantiated civilian reports (like the photo in my OP).

d) A civilian used to be able to validate a vehicle paid the meter by looking at the receipt on the dashboard - DOT must make this possible for pay-by-plate/app payments and publish a validation app that includes meter payments, parking zone, and city maintained placard database.

c) Currently NYPD Traffic skips vehicles that display placards, vests or otherwise. They *must* begin to validate every vehicle electronically and if it doesn't have a recorded valid city issued placard that is relevant it MUST get a 2nd ticket for fraudulent mis-use of placard.

b) Enforcement is black and white - NYPD Traffic must ticket every single illegally parked vehicle, or face discipline internally. Supervisors need to actually audit this - not just check in periodically from their car.

Technology can help - scan every vehicle and record.

I have some ideas

a) NYPD needs to be accountable for excluding certain areas (like this one) from routine enforcement by NYPD Traffic be it a "self enforcement zone" or just auto centric businesses like this one.

Driving a car into the sidewalk is illegal. Parking a car there is also illegal.

Why doesn’t NYPD address this violation here and citywide? How will you approach fixing this @lindseyboylan.bsky.social ?

But it's oh so easy to call for someone else to do the hard thing

up to 78 sponsors of the Bill (H.R.8275) calling for a 25th Amendment Commission

I counted 45 clear statements from Democrats in congress in support of impeachment.

Funny how 11 days later there are still only 3 official sponsors of the actual resolution (H.Res 1155) to impeach Donald Trump.

Prague just opened the new Dvorecký Bridge. It's exclusively for trams, buses, bikes, and pedestrians. Private cars are completely banned.

Right - it should be viewed as a free capacity increase for off hours. Don’t cut jobs and replace drivers, just stop hiring more bus drivers.

There is a bike lane here - but it disappears to cross the street and access the Hudson River Greenway.

We can design better infrastructure without 🚲+🚶‍♂️= conflict (even though these modes mix better than many expect)

We should 100% have driverless fixed route high frequency busses before driverless single-passenger vehicles/taxis.

It’s geometry. One will enhance a city and reduce traffic w/o deadheading - the other will increase traffic and kill a city.

This is excellent

NYC Bus Lane Tracker

0.3 miles worth - added in 2018

reports.jehiah.cz/bus_lanes/

I get that sponsoring resolutions and bills isn't everything - but it's still a meaningful signal and they won't lift a finger to do it. This spreadsheet should be solid green for the NY delegation.

These are not complicated positions to take.